The Feds Just Dismantled a Global Botnet Empire — and the Trail Leads to a Single Anonymous Hacker

The Feds Just Dismantled a Global Botnet Empire — and the Trail Leads to a Single Anonymous Hacker

Four men have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for running an operation that turned hundreds of thousands of ordinary internet-connected devices — home routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders — into weapons capable of generating some of the most powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded. The indictments, unsealed in recent days, expose a sophisticated criminal enterprise that monetized compromised Internet o…